Inside the New York Yankees clubhouse with MLB.com beat writer Bryan Hoch.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen

This was one of the most entertaining e-mails I’ve received in a long time. There’s a fan out there, Chris Pavia, who has captured the essence of Bob Sheppard and the late Eddie Layton with terrific impersonations of both.

From the YouTube page: “Listen as Chris takes you back in time sitting in your seat 45 minutes before the game and listening to the sounds of Eddie Layton and Bob Sheppard.”

He uses his own voice for Sheppard and the same type of organ, two keyboards and drum machine that Layton used at Yankee Stadium from the mid-1980s through 2003.

Chris is definitely talented – I can taste the hot dogs already. But don’t take my word for it. Turn up your volume and you be the judge and jury. What do you think?

The thing I have more faith in is that Teixeira is going to come a lot more in handy than Giambi… No offense to the G-MAN (He will forever be one of my favorite Yankees, who can’t love the “Support the Stache'”. However, after years of watching Giambi play most of his homeruns especially this season were for a lost cause…. He only came in handy in a blow out lose or a tremendous win. Not to mention you can’t even begin to compare the players as a whole, because defensively there is no debate…
Nady on the other hand proved to be able to handle New York last year, so why not this year? Although I believe Abreu was a great player you could replace him with a minor league player and have someone play the wall better.

There are people suggesting we should try to acquire Arizona’s catcher, I don’t have too much knowledge of him.
Has anyone see Posada throw a baseball yet? Much less in a game. I’d be surprised if he can catch over his head.

PRIOR THREAD POSTS REPEATED
Sean,
Interesting choice of Coke for the five slot. Although he did little to merit attention before 2008, it’ll be interesting to see how he starts 2009 at AAA or AA. I’m not sure where King got those numbers from, but Ford wasn’t a hard thrower either. No doubt that out of what we have now Hughes is the clear choice!

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Now that Cabrera and Nady are signed it appears that Pettitte at $10 Million would increase the payroll from 2008 not lower it. With that “barrier” exceeded, can we now give Pettitte the $12 or $13 Million he is worth? King, laugh all you want, but neither Burnett or Sheets have demonstrated that they can succeed as Yankees while Pettitte has! Any skeptics may want to reread this:
The wrath of e-mailers is misplacedhttp://yankees.lhblogs.com/2009/01/15/the-wrath-of-e-mailers-is-misplaced/

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